See those two tall towers in the Caspian border map, which are T shaped towers? Yes, those are perfect sniping positions, but remember, there'll almost always be someone there.

Use the Anti-Aircraft Battery. Near your base (caspian border), there's always an anti-aircraft battery which can be pretty useful.

In Terrahn Highway snipers with larger scopes can be seen by the scope glare and the dark background which can be easy targets to sneak up on or just simply shot by other snipers which can also be spotted.

When you are playing conquest, take your helicopter and go to a flag to capture it while in your helicopter. Land, or hover near the flag; it takes skill to land and hover a chopper so you are going to crash and get shot a lot.

You can be the first to get in a chopper as soon as the match starts and go to the nearest flag. This will give you time to capture the flag before someone blasts you out of the sky!

You are going to get shot all the time, but fortunatly flares only cost 300-400 points to unlock and each flag gets you 250 points once captured so do the math. Hope it helps because it saved my life at least ten times already.

When first starting don't get excited, just go up then down then try spinning and then try other movements which would get one super familiar with the controls and comfortable with other people in your bird.

If you're just starting, here's one tip : Fly high, slow your jet's speed and circle around the map near the boundary. Now that you're flying safe and sound, hold the down button and look around. This is by far the easiest and best method to spot other enemy planes/heli's and then swoop down to finish them.

If you're getting engaged by a SAM, drop everything else and fly high, as high as you can, because SAM's are limited by their maximum and minimum locking distance.

Likewise, if you're getting pounded by an airplane, Try to fly low and near the hills. Alternatively, you can try going straight towards the sun, which tends to confuse your chaser.

Use Heat Seekers to detect targets. Did you see something moving? Might it have just been your imagination? Why take chances? Just change your course direction a bit and try to see if the detector picks up anything and tries to lock.

When just starting one thing to know somwhere in the speeds there is a sweet spot that allows a super tight turn radius and allows one to get out of a chase if done correctly and repeatidly.

Javelin- Whenever firing a Javelin, just before firing, shoot it a bit towards the sky, because if you shoot it straight, chances are that it would hit one or two obstacles in the way. Handy if the tank/jeep/truck is just around the corner behind a crate.

Keep moving if you have an RPG. A lot of people tend to alternate their shooting style. If you shot a tank at say, Point A, and then from point B, DO NOT return to Point A because that's where the tank would be focusing.

One can "mess" with a tank by just simply shooting at it at multiple points which ussually confuses the driver and occassionally they get out and the tank can be stollen which would give your team a tactical advantage!

Make use of your support-class abilities. For example, if you have captured all the objectives in say, Operation Metro, then pop down an ammo crate next to you, ask a fellow squadmate (recon or assault) to pop down next to you, Lie down at a choke point and use those bipods. If you see something, just shoot. Suppressive fire is for a reason, and so is your buddy next to you.

Throw those Ammo crates! You are not a run-and-gun class and you have to use your abiltiies to support your teammates. Likewise, plant claymores at choke points and tunnels.

Best maps to use the support class are Operation Metro and Grand Bazaar.

One can place C4 on the front of a jeep and ram them in to tanks, get out of the jeep and blow the C4 which creates a vehicle disable, a vehicle destroy and all kills for the people inside AKA huge xp for new people..

Having trouble getting kills with the MAV? Here is how kills work on the MAV. Touching the enemy is not enough, you have to be moving at them fast. Run into your next enemy at a high speed with the MAV and see how many kills you get now!

If you have more tips for Battlefield 3, feel free to share it with other players. The more you know about an exploit or a technique, the less chance someone can pull it off without you knowing about it!